Information & Ethics committee  I really want to add to and underscore what Jim just said. There is an opportunity here for a collectivity, for this group to begin to identify some of the kinds of interventions, policy interventions and regulatory actions, that you want to experiment with. There may be differen

Information & Ethics committee  This is such a wonderful question. I realize I didn't have time this morning to share this with you, but it's in my written statement. There's a fascinating story here about a U.S. Senate subcommittee that was convened in 1971, chaired by a famous senator, Sam Ervin, who was one

Information & Ethics committee  We're surfacing this theme over and over again. If you think about the history of science and engineering in the 20th century, the whole idea was that systems would be created to cure and to provide fail-safe for any problems. In medicine, for example, the idea was vaccines that

Information & Ethics committee  It's so critical to be conscious of that balance. Obviously, authoritarian governments would love Roger's recommendation—shut it down, because we don't like what they're saying. Obviously, that's not the intention here, so how do we make that distinction? One thing I can say is

Information & Ethics committee  I'm so glad you brought that up, because this is part of the relentless ideology of the surveillance capitalists. They have tried to put lawmakers on the run. They have tried to pit lawmakers against citizens. That “we serve the citizens” is exactly what is going on in Toronto ri

Information & Ethics committee  Of course I would cede to Mr. Balsillie, because he's been more on the ground there than I have, but in talking with the folks there, including Bianca Wylie, who is the citizen activist, and in reading everything that I have read, there's no question. I mean, this is how Sidewalk

Information & Ethics committee  That's such an important distinction, because I don't think there is a single one of us in this room who is against the digital per se. This is not about being anti-technology. It's about technology being hijacked by a rogue economic logic that has turned it to its own purposes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that metaphor is full of potential. It is true. From the very beginning, the data scientists at Google who were inventing surveillance capitalism celebrated in their written patents and in their published research the fact that they could hunt and capture behavioural surpl

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, co-chairmen Zimmer and Collins. It's such a pleasure to be here today. As you know, I hail from the Harvard Business School, where I am a professor emerita. More importantly, I am the author of this book on surveillance capitalism. I say that because I want you to kno

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you so much, Chairman Zimmer. Indeed, I'm reminded of elementary school tonight. Of course, you reverse the order tomorrow morning.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a lifelong burden. It's such an honour to be speaking with you tonight, not least in part because I feel this committee right now is our information civilization's best hope for making progress against the threats to democracy that are now endemic as a result of what you've